Opponents of assisted suicide warn that assisted suicide laws will eventually be expanded in the United States as they have in European countries and in Canada. We are already seeing attempts at expansion in the United States. For example, one of the supposed safeguards in...
New Jersey’s top court declined to overturn a judge’s order preventing implementation of the state’s physician-assisted suicide law, instead sending the matter to the Appellate Division for a ruling on whether the measure should be struck down. The Supreme Court said in an order Tuesday it...
New Jersey's attorney general is asking the state's top court to quickly overturn a judge's ruling that barred doctors from prescribing life-ending medication to terminally ill patients. The law, effective Aug. 1, was put on hold last week by a judge in Mercer County. On Friday, the...
At the end of May, disability rights activists went to Albany to voice their opposition to the proposed assisted suicide legislation in New York. Kristen Hanson, Community Relations Advocate at the Patient’s Rights Action Fund, and Stephanie Woodward, Director of Advocacy at the Center for...
“On February 24th, 2019, Carrie Ann Lucas, a beloved and renowned disability rights attorney and trailblazer who innovated representation for parents with disabilities, died after being denied a $2,000 medication for a lung infection by her health insurer, UnitedHealthcare. Lucas was forced into taking a...
A New Jersey judge has put a hold on the state law allowing doctors to prescribe life-ending medications, which went into effect Aug. 1. The temporary restraining order issued Wednesday prevents doctors from writing fatal prescriptions until at least Oct. 23, said Richard W. Grohmann, a...
A state judge in New Jersey issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday blocking the state's right-to-die law from being implemented two weeks after it took effect. The move came after Dr. Yosef Glassman, a Bergen County physician, filed a lawsuit, saying he refused to participate in assisted suicides, including referring...
Sean Tagert may not have chosen assisted suicide if he'd been able to obtain the 24-hour home care he needed in order to be home with his son, which is where he desperately longed to be. This tragic story is another example of how assisted...
As the voluntary assisted dying Bill hit State Parliament last week, a palliative care nurse was ramping up her fight against it. Lou Angus has worked in palliative care for 30 years and believes if people with “life-limiting illness” had adequate access to it then voluntary...
A pro-euthanasia forum in Perth has turned ugly after a young woman tried to direct questions to controversial former doctor Philip Nitschke. Backers of the man dubbed Dr Death, converged on the woman and demanded she leave. "There are young people who have died, people with...